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Mediumship

Mediumship is the practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings. Practitioners are known as "mediums" or "spirit mediums". There are different types of mediumship or spirit channelling, including séance tables, trance, and ouija. The practice is associated with spiritualism and…

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Mediumship

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related to External links · 24
Mediumship → Bereaved, Cold Reading TricksPsychics, Fake Mediums, Fraudulent Mediums Archived, Harry HoudiniPsychic Methods Exposed, Have, HBO, Historical Lesson, Houdini, Hustling, James RandiTricks, Joe NickellMediumship, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, Lime Street, Massimo PolidoroHow, Medium' Is Not, Messenger, Skeptic's DictionaryThe, Skepticism
related to Demonstrations of mediumship · 21
Mediumship → Chesterfield, Churches, Demonstration, Divine, Dorreen Phillips, Healing, In, Indiana, National Spiritualist Association, NSAC, NSAC's Declaration, Principal, Prophecy, Services, She, SNU, Spiritualism, Spiritualist Camp Chesterfield, Spiritualists' National Union, Today
related to history · 18
Mediumship → Allan Kardec, Attempts, Biblical, Emma Hardinge Britten, Endor, Fox, Kardec, Modern Spiritualism, New York State, Paschal Beverly Randolph, Spiritism, Spiritist Codification, Spiritualism, The, The Spirits' Book, United Kingdom, United States, Witch
related to Fraud · 15
Mediumship → An Encyclopaedia, Critical SPR, Ectoplasm, From, In Britain, Lewis Spence, Mediums, Occultism, On, Paul Kurtz, Physical, Psychical Research, Society, Spiritualist, Séances
related to 1800s · 14
Mediumship → At, Daniel Dunglas Home's, Ealing, Encyclopædia Britannica, Frederick Merrifield, Home, John Snaith Rymer, July, Many, Merrifield, Spiritualist, The, United States, While
related to Scientific skepticism · 13
Mediumship → Critical Thinking, ESP, How, In, Lewis Vaughn, New Age, Research, Scientists, Spiritualist, Spiritualists, Theodore Schick, Think About Weird Things, Trance
related to Paranormal belief · 9
Mediumship → ESP, Psychic Phenomena, Psychology, Spiritism, Spiritualists, The, The Law, Thomson Jay Hudson, Théodore Flournoy
related to Physical mediumship · 7
Mediumship → By, Mina Crandon, Most, Physical, Scientific American, The, This
related to Direct voice · 5
Mediumship → Direct, Leslie Flint, The, This, Trumpets
related to Concept · 4
Mediumship → In Spiritism, Mediums, Spiritualism, Spiritualists

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Mediumshipis apractice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings0.90text
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the Davenport Brothersinstance ofAfter the exposure of the fraudulent use of stage magic tricks by physical mediums0.80text
the Bangs Sistersinstance ofAfter the exposure of the fraudulent use of stage magic tricks by physical mediums0.80text
mediumship fell into disreputeinstance ofAfter the exposure of the fraudulent use of stage magic tricks by physical mediums0.80text
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Pierre Linstance of1887 exposed fraudulent mediums0.80text

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